Mandate of the 1988 Sanctions Committee
The Committee of the Security Council established by paragraph 30 of Security Council resolution 1988 (2011) of 17 June 2011 is tasked with considering listing and delisting requests and proposed updates to the existing information in relation to the Taliban, and other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them.
Link to UNSCR 1988 (2011)
http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/doc/1988
Criteria for Designations
The Committee will consider designations of individuals, groups, undertakings, and entities associated with the Taliban in constituting a threat to the peace, stability and security of Afghanistan on the basis of the criteria contained in paragraphs 2 and 3 of resolution 2082 (2012). These criteriain relation to the Taliban, as well as other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with the Taliban are as follows:
(a) Participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of;
(b) Supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to;
(c) Recruiting for; or
(d) Otherwise supporting acts or activities of those designated and other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with the Taliban in constituting a threat to the peace, stability and security of Afghanistan;
The Committee shall consider including new names based on submissions received from Member States in line with paragraph 12 of resolution 2082 (2012). The submission of new listings by Malta under this provision to the 1988 Committee will be in accordance with the rules laid down in the 1988 Committee Guidelines linked hereunder.
Delisting
A petitioner (individual, group, undertaking, and/or entity on the 1988 Sanctions List) can submit a request for delisting to the Focal Point for Delisting in accordance with the 1988 Committee Guidelines (link below).
Alternatively, provided the petitioner is a Maltese national or a person who is resident in Malta, the request for delisting can be submitted to the Sanctions Monitoring Board, which will then submit it to the 1988 Sanctions Committee in accordance with the procedure stated in the 1988 Committee Guidelines.
Link to the 1988 Committee Guidelines
https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/1988/guidelines
Petitions to the Focal Point for Delisting established pursuant to resolution 1730 (2006)https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/s/res/1730-%282006%29. https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/delisting can be sent to:
Focal Point for De-listing
Security Council Subsidiary Organs Branch
Room DC2 2034
United Nations
New York, N.Y. 10017
United States of America
Tel. +1 917 367 9448
Fax. +1 212 963 1300
Email: delisting@un.org
The Sanctions Monitoring Board can be contacted in writing enclosing any relevant material on the following address:
The Chairman
Sanctions Monitoring Board
Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade
Palazzo Parisio
Merchants Street,
Valletta
Additionally a copy of the petition and documents may be sent in writing on sanctions.mftp@gov.mt
Deceased Individuals
In order to request the delisting of a deceased individual who was a Maltese national or was resident in Malta, the legal beneficiary shall submit a request to the Sanctions Monitoring Board for onward transission to the 1988 Sanctions Committee. The request is to be made in accordance with the 1988 Sanctions Committee Guildelines as linked hereunder:
https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/1988/guidelines
Alternatively, the deceased individual’s legal beneficiary may submit the request to the Focal Point for Delisting together with official documentation certifying death.
Petitions to the Focal Point for Delisting established pursuant to resolution 1730 (2006)https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/s/res/1730-%282006%29. https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/delisting can be sent to:
Security Council Subsidiary Organs Branch
Room DC2 2034
United Nations
New York, N.Y. 10017
United States of America
Tel. +1 917 367 9448
Fax. +1 212 963 1300
Email: delisting@un.org
The Sanctions Monitoring Board can be contacted in writing enclosing any relevant material on the following address:
The Chairman
Sanctions Monitoring Board
Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade
Palazzo Parisio
Merchants Street,
Valletta
